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[inhistorybooks]

[Hey everyone. Say hello to Trip, who is approximately all of sixteenish years old and wearing this lovely surfing Santa Hawaiian shirt to reflect just how much he fucking loves this holiday.

... To the point of maybe not really understanding why you would ever want to celebrate anything else and has probably acted with extreme confusion when people have mentioned things like not celebrating Christmas, Merlin please teach him other holidays are cool too before he offends someone. :c]

You know, holidays are great. I like Valentine's Day and the Fourth of July, and I'm a little sad when Halloween has gone by, but let's be honest here. Christmas is just the best of them all.

So, we've got officially less than a week until it happens, and I think I've finally gotten all my gift wrapping done. Good thing too, since I'm pretty sure when Mom and Dad get back they'll be pretty much impossible to hide stuff from since - you know - it's their house and they're hiding unwrapped presents for us around the place too. Now I've just got to finish the gingerbread house - [More like mansion or fortress at this point. :V] - and I'm pretty sure that's it.

What's everyone else planning on doing for the holiday?

[ooc: Trip is going to be learning about other people's holiday traditions and that Christmas is not the be all and end all of the holiday season with the help of Merlin a la the Puzzle Place holiday special - does anyone else remember this show or is my 90's showing? - but feel free to chime in and say you're being a dick if you don't celebrate Christmas. Also Steph is his trollish older sister. Any assumed connection with him is totally cool with me!

And I will be replying with tripliketriple because delicious icons.]

Comments

Re: Spammmm

[takeyouapart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, thanks. [Sob it's a long walk back home in the snow. He tags along after Trip into the kitchen, glancing around as he goes.]

It's, er. Twinkly in here.

Spammmm guh sorry total tripfail

[tripliketriple]

[TRIP CAN DRIVE YOU you're a licensed driver right. Maybe Steph can when she gets home. :V]

Oh, yeah, we finally got done decorating, it's kinda a big process at my house. What're you guys doing for Christmas?

it is cool bro <3

[takeyouapart.livejournal.com]

[He fidgets.] Nothing, really. We don't really...do Christmas. As such.

<333

[tripliketriple]

[GASP. STARE.] What?

Re: <333

[takeyouapart.livejournal.com]

[Merlin offers just the awkwardest shrug.] My family doesn't celebrate Christmas. We never have.

[tripliketriple]

Why not? Everyone celebrates Christmas. [Herderp :v]

[takeyouapart.livejournal.com]

No, not everybody. [Slight brow-furrowing.] We're going to observe the solstice on Thursday but that's not the same thing.

[tripliketriple]

Why don't you celebrate Christmas, then?

[takeyouapart.livejournal.com]

[Merlin's so utterly bemused that he just gently nudges the ball back into Trip's court.] Why do you think we don't celebrate Christmas?

[tripliketriple]

I don't know. Just because you're not Christian doesn't mean you can't celebrate it. [See, at least he kind of knows you're not celebrating it due to religious reasons...?]

[takeyouapart.livejournal.com]

[Good start, Trip.] I know. But just because it exists, that doesn't mean we have to. We other festivals that we celebrate instead.